Whack-a-Mole

Published November 17, 2004

"We're going to raise the Iraqi flag over Falluja and give it back to the Fallujans," Major-General Richard Natonski told the First Marine Division at the start of the battle for the western Iraqi city. After six days of one-sided fighting (38 American soldiers killed, and about 1,200 Iraqi resistance fighters), what's left of the city has indeed been captured, but most Fallujans left weeks ago. So did most of the...